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KSU joins the Reforest Frankfort celebration
Kentucky State University (KSU) partnered with Tree City USA, the Franklin County Government, the City of Frankfort, and the Division of Forestry, for a 20-year celebration of Reforest Frankfort. The University along with many volunteers from the local area joined Saturday, April 1 to plant 2,000 trees Cave Spring Park Sky Trail. The participants spent the day sowing, and learning about the benefits of protecting natural resou...
Young KSU grad opens store to fill downtown need
Growing up in Detroit, Nocomis Miner II didn’t always know how he’d get himself to school in the morning or where he’d find dinner at night. When he was still in high school, he even lost his brother Robert Cooper Smith to a gunman who mistook him for another man. “Growing up was hard,” said Miner, now 25. Education was his only “outlet” and he pushed himself to succeed. Read the full story at State Journal.com
Dr. Donavan L. Ramon to represent KSU in the first cohort of the Academic Leadership Development Institute
The Council on Postsecondary recently announced the first cohort of faculty for the Academic Leadership Development Institute (ALDI). The purpose of ALDI is to create a professional learning community of early career, underrepresented faculty of color who are interested in future administrative leadership positions. Dr. Donavan L. Ramon, Assistant Professor of Liberal Studies in the Whitney Young School of Honors, has been chosen t...
Kentucky State University Concert Choir to perform April 2
The Kentucky State Concert Choir, under the direction of Dr. Keith McCutchen, will present Gabriel Faure’s Requiem this Sunday, 4 p.m. at the Church of the Ascension Episcopal Church, 311 Washington Street, Frankfort Ky, 40601. The concert will also feature an organ recital by Kentucky State University Fine Arts faculty member John Martin. Martin will play French organ works by Charles-Marie Widor, Louis Vierne and Alexandre Guill...